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(abridged) INTEGRAL has discovered large numbers of new hard X-ray sources,many of which are believed to be high mass X-ray binaries. However, for asignificant fraction, their counterparts remain unidentified. We explore theuse of photometric catalogues to find optical counterparts to high mass X-raybinaries. Candidates were selected from 2MASS photometry by means of areddening free Q parameter. Sufficiently bright candidates werespectroscopically observed. Many of the candidates selected turned out to bemoderately reddened late A or early F stars, but our method is able to identifythe counterpart to IGR J16207-5129, confirmed by a Chandra localisation. Weclassify this object as a B0 supergiant. In the field of AX J1820.5-1434, wefind a mid or early B-type star, but we cannot confirm it as the counterpart.For AX J1700.2-4220, we do not find any suitable candidate within the ASCAerror circle. We classify HD 153295, a marginal candidate to be thecounterpart, as B0.5IVe, and find a distance compatible with membership in ScoOB1. We derive a spectral type B0IIIe for HD100199, previously identified asthe counterpart to IGR J11305-6256. In the case of IGR J17091-3624, the objectassociated with a variable radio source in the field is a late F star. Theprocedure used is able to correctly identify OB stars and, in about one thirdof the cases, may lead to the localisation of the correct counterpart. However,the majority of INTEGRAL error circles do not contain any suitable opticallyvisible counterpart. Deep infrared searches are going to be necessary in orderto locate the counterparts to these sources.Comment: 10 pages, 6 figures; Accepted for publication in Astronomy &  Astrophysics (Sept 25th

A search for counterparts to massive X-ray binaries using photometric catalogues